Example sentences of "what [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time , like , I 've learned not to do this because that 's what got me back into it the last time . |
| 2 | Well I 'd say nine out of ten , cos I have n't heard about what turns me on yet . |
| 3 | Expense , though , is not what turns me off . |
| 4 | What irritates me most about him is his way of speaking . |
| 5 | You have to have a little bit of presence about you ; and that 's what made me here . |
| 6 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 7 | That was what made me so nervous when we played , knowing they were both watching . |
| 8 | His elbows stuck out through holes in a filthy jersey , his shorts were similarly ragged , but what appalled me most was the sour smell of his unwashed little body . |
| 9 | But according to Aunt Mary , what upset me more than anything , including the Father Christmas thing , was the business with the rainbow . |
| 10 | What amazes me though he just do n't seemed to of . |
| 11 | ‘ What worries me most , ’ she said , ‘ is what all this rushing around is doing to Zachary . |
| 12 | But what worries me more is the process of secularisation . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 14 | That 's what put me off studying , really . |
| 15 | Set in a glade of thinned-out coconut palms , it was breathtaking , but what amazed me most was that , within sight of the most beautiful beaches in the world , the garden contained a large pool edged with white and blue tiles . |
| 16 | When asked what frightens me most about London , I say , it is not the pinwheeled eyes of junkies on the street . |
| 17 | I think what attracted me most about the country round was its Englishness , meadows deep in grass and wild flowers , and willows wherever there was water . |
| 18 | Tell you what let me just get on my jacket . |
| 19 | The sound of the collision was what woke me up : a terrible grinding , smashing wrench . |
| 20 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ What pleased me most about that , ’ he said , ‘ was that my mother knew about it before she died , so she could see I was getting somewhere . ’ |
| 22 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked like they had been taken anywhere . |
| 23 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 24 | But what concerns me greatly again , is we seem to be doing it or the District Council in bits and bobs . |
| 25 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 26 | You see , what troubled me most I think , was the apparently vast , shapeless extent of it . |
| 27 | ’ This creates a much stronger argument , but what interests me here is Chisholm 's reason for holding that ( b ) does not follow from ( a ) . |
| 28 | Yes , I mean this is what interests me most , I think , the sheer convenience of it . |
| 29 | What I like doing , what interests me particularly , is the fusion of different discourses . |
| 30 | Not so much the opposition — what shook me up was to see children being used in the front line by protestors . |